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From: ihm@minnie.UUCP (Ian Merritt)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: Much ado about regular expressions
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Date: Fri, 24-Oct-86 18:54:30 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 24 18:54:30 1986
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There are some kinds of replacement functions for which I would really
like the good ol' MIT-TECO (or even a reasonable subset) minibuffer.  I
realize this wouldn't be of much value for the newcomers to the EMACS
world, but for many of us who have been using EMACS since ITS/TOPS-20,
that was a really quick escape mechanism for certain transformations of
medium complexity which probably could be performed with regex or other
scenarios, but not as quickly.  How long it has been since I have seen
something like:

jsfoo$.,.+4uxsbar$xi$$


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It has been so long that I am not even sure I remember the command set
quite correcltly, but I found it quite useful back then and there have
been times recently when I would have found it much faster than a ^X(
macro or other method.

Oh well...

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